kathol reviewed River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
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Another attempt to read books outside my favourite genre. Just to realise once again that I don't like certain types of books.
I liked the mix of historical facts and settings and the fictional events themselves. But overall it was too lengthy, repetitive and not deep enough/thought out/too obvious in the plot for me. It felt like the same metaphors were always used to describe deep emotional changes, which still somehow came across as shallow. The beginning slow for me and seemed to drag on forever, even though it suited the development of the main character, only to rush to the finale on the last few pages, perhaps an allusion to the river here too? In general, there were too many river metaphors for me (and arrows and oh my).
Unfortunately, I liked the writing style of the epilogue much better than the book itself. What a pity.
(Also: why …
Another attempt to read books outside my favourite genre. Just to realise once again that I don't like certain types of books.
I liked the mix of historical facts and settings and the fictional events themselves. But overall it was too lengthy, repetitive and not deep enough/thought out/too obvious in the plot for me. It felt like the same metaphors were always used to describe deep emotional changes, which still somehow came across as shallow. The beginning slow for me and seemed to drag on forever, even though it suited the development of the main character, only to rush to the finale on the last few pages, perhaps an allusion to the river here too? In general, there were too many river metaphors for me (and arrows and oh my).
Unfortunately, I liked the writing style of the epilogue much better than the book itself. What a pity.
(Also: why would you use AI generated images for covers, why? Could someone please fix the wings. And pay people for art work?!)